c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me." — Alicia Silverstone
"I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood." — Mandy Moore
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way." — Josh Billings
"Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science." — Ann Druyan
"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you." — Alex Trebek
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses." — Jean Cocteau
"I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool." — Harold Perrineau
"It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you." — Bill Ayers
"You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go." — Nathan Fillion
"There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek." — John R. Allen
"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it." — David Horowitz
"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler." — Mark Strand
"In Pakistan politics is hereditary." — Imran Khan
"It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement." — Gabriela Sabatini
"In art the best is good enough." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue." — Joyce Maynard
"School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly." — Reed Hastings
"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown." — John Buchan
"If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane." — Tommy Chong
"Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive." — Jean M. Auel
"Knowledge is the life of the mind." — Abu Bakr
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." — Ezra Pound
"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way." — James Franco
"I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging." — J. G. Ballard
"They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me." — R. Kelly
"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood." — Pauly Shore
"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation." — Warren Buffett
"Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans." — Patina Miller
"I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil." — Malcolm X
"Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior." — Gary Bauer
"Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function." — Maynard James Keenan
"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums." — Peter De Vries
"I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once." — Niki Taylor
"Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit." — Nelson Mandela
"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness." — Denis Diderot
"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" — C. S. Lewis
"The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard." — Jim Bunning
"My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world." — Warwick Davis
"For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history." — Michael Pollan
"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on." — Bill Cosby
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Human history in essence is the history of ideas." — H. G. Wells
"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Our patience will achieve more than our force." — Edmund Burke
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself." — Alexander Chase
"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences." — Harry S. Truman
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were." — Khalil Gibran
"You keep learning all the time." — Vanessa Paradis
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine." — Henry Ward Beecher
"I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star." — Sojourner Truth
"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others." — Samuel Johnson
"I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too." — James Dean
"If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy." — Ralph Merkle
"My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great." — Novak Djokovic
"I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45." — Burt Ward
"The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth." — Steve Wynn
"I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs." — Judy Collins
"I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog." — Beverley Mitchell
"Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent." — John Podhoretz
"To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business." — Jennifer Aniston
"A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself." — Bo Bennett
"I think women are excellent social critics." — Laurie Anderson
"As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington." — Doc Hastings
"We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government." — Ken Calvert
"Government stimulates the democrat party." — Rush Limbaugh
"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion." — Albert Einstein
"I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job." — Samuel Goldwyn
"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature." — Edward Thorndike
"But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do." — Cheryl Tiegs
"After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people." — Jaron Lanier
"Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling." — Naveen Jain
"Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate." — Gina Barreca
"Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age." — Aung San Suu Kyi
"I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners." — Hoda Kotb
"Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time." — Sean Penn
"I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality." — Robert Ballard
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government." — Heather Wilson
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." — Harry S. Truman
"I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be." — Josh Gad
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament." — Vladimir Lenin
"Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake." — Eric Hoffer
"Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others." — David Brainerd
"So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK." — Tom Colicchio
"The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched." — Henry Louis Gates
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." — Benjamin Franklin
"We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people." — Chen Shui-bian
"Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday." — Melanie Laurent
"It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that." — Michelle Williams
"My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved." — Juliana Hatfield
"Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is." — Malcolm Arnold
"It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive." — Peter Hook
"I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?" — Mary-Kate Olsen
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism." — Irving Babbitt
"Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven." — George Sand
"Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!" — Gerard Way
"My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing." — Lucy Hale
"The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel." — Ted Nugent
"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future." — Hillary Clinton
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." — Bo Jackson
"I hid myself in food." — Gordon Ramsay
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do." — Katharine Hepburn
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." — James A. Baldwin
"Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy." — Izabella Scorupco
"It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'" — Pat Robertson
"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance." — Helmut Jahn
"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse." — Mary Wesley
"We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'" — Alison Sweeney
"So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology." — Michael K. Powell
"Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor." — Allen Klein
"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future." — Andrew Wiles
"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm." — Augustine Birrell
"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument." — Newt Gingrich
"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own." — Herbert Hoover
"I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing." — Foxy Brown
"Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting." — Liv Tyler
"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race." — Yahoo Serious
"My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son." — Farrah Fawcett
"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution." — Victor Hugo
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." — Christopher Columbus
"The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears." — Wilson Mizner
"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life." — Wislawa Szymborska
"Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them." — Thomas Frank
"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." — Brian Tracy
"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"I know how men in exile feed on dreams." — Aeschylus
"If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents." — Edward Koch
"I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it." — Kiana Tom
"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings." — Marcus V. Pollio
"There is not a lot of separation between work and home life." — Cate Blanchett
"The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply." — Christopher Hitchens
"Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society." — Robert Blair
"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them." — Etta James
"But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made." — Errol Morris
"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776." — Susan B. Anthony
"God has a most wicked sense of humor." — Maureen O'Hara
"I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people." — Ariel Sharon
"I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for." — Diana Lopez
"Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses." — David E. Kelley
"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands." — Peter Drucker
"If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself." — Bernard Meltzer
"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends." — Samuel Richardson
"We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building." — Sherrod Brown
"I do come from a strong family." — Arlen Specter
"I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?" — Kristin Davis
"If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions." — Dee Dee Myers
"We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny." — Barbara Jordan
"We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his." — Charles Schumer
"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below." — George Orwell
"There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty." — Helena Christensen
"They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change." — Jean Charest
"I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century." — Hillary Clinton
"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible." — Daniel Berrigan
"I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going." — Paula Poundstone
"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." — Helen Hayes
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." — Thomas A. Edison
"The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly." — Daniel H. Wilson
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society." — Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death." — Stevie Ray Vaughan
"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them." — Max Eastman
"What we do as a society is seek simple answers." — Dean Koontz
"Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it." — Barry Zito
"Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food." — Mario Batali
"I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance." — Lee Myung-bak
"My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance." — Rob James-Collier
"I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age." — Lena Dunham
"I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell." — Matthew Fox
"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger." — W. Somerset Maugham
"Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will." — Tyra Banks
"Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads." — Bobby Scott
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them." — Benjamin Franklin
"I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing." — Danny Pudi
"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity." — Jean Henri Fabre
"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?" — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results." — Scott Adams
"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment." — William J. Brennan, Jr.
"The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them." — Carlos Ghosn
"I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them." — Charles de Gaulle
"I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor." — Ishmael Reed
"I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion." — Damien Hirst
"Penn State is a leader in food science." — Don Sherwood
"The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live." — Armistead Maupin
"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest." — Gustave Flaubert
"I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left." — Vivienne Westwood
"Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand." — Anita Borg
"Writers write. Dreamers talk about it." — Jerry B. Jenkins
"If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by." — Julia Roberts
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." — Joseph Chilton Pearce
"In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively." — Ismail Haniyeh
"Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life." — Joel Osteen
"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy." — Camille Paglia
"Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody." — Ted Bell
"African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans." — Xavier Becerra
"Just do what you do best." — Red Auerbach
"My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration." — Mike Myers
"If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it." — Kid Rock
"My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race." — K. Eric Drexler
"Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration." — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat." — Paul Prudhomme
"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?" — Kiefer Sutherland
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever." — Maurice Sendak
"My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother." — Michael Kors
"I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head." — Kim Kardashian
"Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work." — Anne Hathaway
"My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium." — Dalai Lama
"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences." — Jim Morrison
"My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant." — Jamie Oliver
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book." — Samuel Johnson
"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover." — Tom Glazer
"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot." — Dixie Lee Ray
"European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together." — John Bruton
"Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life." — Molly Shannon
"I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside." — Faith Hill
"Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner." — George McGovern
"Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom." — John Bolton
"Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven." — Kevyn Aucoin
"As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century." — Kenzaburo Oe
"Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution." — Mary Daly
"Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told." — Chaz Bono
"Learning how to learn is life's most important skill." — Tony Buzan
"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens." — Charles Kuralt
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles." — Walter Scott
"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor." — Judy Garland
"There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them." — T. D. Jakes
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution." — Mae West
"I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains." — Jeff Hawkins
"I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time." — Christopher Nolan
"It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us." — Mira Nair
"I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds." — Aly Raisman
"Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool." — Maynard James Keenan
"Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music." — Bobby Vinton
"My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together." — Ann Druyan
"I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks." — Florence Henderson
"I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others." — Blanche Lincoln
"The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them." — Sarah Michelle Gellar
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." — Khalil Gibran
"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother." — Thomas Huxley
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." — Bruce Lee
"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects." — Richard M. Nixon
"Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever." — Paul Auster
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." — Auguste Rodin
"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished." — Jean Dujardin
"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway." — Robert Anthony
"Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it." — Harold Ramis
"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized." — Gabrielle Reece
"I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well." — Jenna Bush
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob." — Salvador Dali
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them." — Marcus Aurelius
"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me." — Vivien Leigh
"In a war of ideas it is people who get killed." — Stanislaw Lec
"I believe in God and his son, Jesus." — Lil Wayne
"I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people." — Amitabh Bachchan
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself." — Abraham Maslow
"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly." — B. C. Forbes
"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years." — Gracie Allen
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." — Stephen Hawking
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." — Pericles
"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power." — Joan Didion
"I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there." — Wiz Khalifa
"Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium." — Pat Robertson
"President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party." — Bill Richardson
"Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place." — Charles Kennedy
"Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes." — George W. Bush
"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals." — Edward Abbey
"We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others." — George Weinberg
"It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say." — Ricki Lake
"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character." — Robert Browning
"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well." — Robert Benchley
"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing." — Robert E. Lee
"I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen." — Scott Brooks
"President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois." — Tom Vilsack
"I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it." — Jennifer Garner
"A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality." — Jimmy Carter
"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy." — Thomas Huxley
"Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances." — Jim Hunt
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." — Martin Heidegger
"I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later." — Derek Luke
"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me." — Henry Rollins
"I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work." — Eric Bana
"I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior." — Julie Delpy
"I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great." — Jacques Pepin
"All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places." — Jerry Saltz
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." — Alfred North Whitehead
"The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world." — Stephen Gardiner
"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience." — Paul Cezanne
"I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer." — Stella McCartney
"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light." — Henri Matisse
"Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy." — Joseph Campbell
"I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong." — Jermaine Jackson
"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God." — Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone." — A. R. Ammons
"Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience." — James Taylor
"The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice." — Clarence Darrow
"War is fear cloaked in courage." — William Westmoreland
"If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers." — Bradley Cooper
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." — George Washington
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." — Gustav Mahler
"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum." — P. J. O'Rourke
"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety." — Edward Young
"The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?" — Henry Louis Gates
"We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration." — Burt Rutan
"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." — Helen Keller
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present." — Bo Bennett
"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day." — Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength." — Sid Waddell
"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca